How to know what is the model of my wireless card?

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I am looking for command line which tells me what is the model of my wireless card? For example if that is Atheors. The result should be atheros.

score 4 · Accepted Answer · edited Jun 03 '14 at 19:45

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To find the model of your wireless card:

lspci -nn | grep 0280

The pipe symbol | is on the right side of my keyboard on the same key with backslash. We added -nn because we want numerical details, particularly the pci.id, that may help diagnose a problem. 0280 is the class used by lspci for wireless devices: for example:

03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG [Golan] Network Connection [8086:4227] (rev 02)

Are you looking for just Atheros with all other details removed?

edited Jun 03 '14 at 19:45

Sylvain Pineau

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answered Jun 03 '14 at 19:21

chili555

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if there may be some extra information, that will be better – Mohammad Reza Rezwani Jun 03 '14 at 19:24
what is nn and why 0280? – Mohammad Reza Rezwani Jun 03 '14 at 19:24
Please see my edit. – chili555 Jun 03 '14 at 19:25
I said, Not strictly Atheros, if the command shows some extra information that will be fine.please take a look to the second command thanks – Mohammad Reza Rezwani Jun 03 '14 at 19:28
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@chili555 In my case is 0200: 03:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Qualcomm Atheros AR242x / AR542x Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) [168c:001c] (rev 01). So, I suggest to use better lspci -nn | grep Wireless – Radu Rădeanu Jun 03 '14 at 20:56
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@RaduRădeanu There are a very few cases where lspci classifies a device as 0200 which is usually ethernet. On the other hand, there are a very few wireless devices that don't actually use the word 'Wireless' in the description. Here is an example: 01:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM43142 802.11b/g/n [14e4:4365] (rev 01) I suspect there may be no completely failsafe answer. 0280 will get 98% of devices. – chili555 Jun 03 '14 at 21:19
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@chili555 Actually, there is: lspci -nnk | grep net -A2. – Radu Rădeanu Jun 03 '14 at 22:22
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This commands gets my ethernet device but not wireless. – chili555 Jun 03 '14 at 23:13

How to know what is the model of my wireless card?

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